2020-07-01
93CONSOLIDATION TEST
Decide True or False, Explain your choice.
1. Originally OE was a synthetic language. T, this means that relations between words in a phrase were expressed through their forms rather than their position in the sentence or auxiliaries.
2. The usage of affixes was restricted to the noun in OE.
3. The OE parts of speech were the same as today. T the noun, the adj., the pronoun, the verb, the adverb, the verbals, the preposition, the conjunction, the interjection.
4. The nominal system in OE was more complicated than at present due to the system of inflexions. T every case and gender had his own endings.
5. Number with nouns was expressed with the help of endings. T f.ex. –es, -en, -ru.
6. Gender in OE had a well-developed system of formal markers. T
7. The process of simplification led to the early disappearance of the category of gender. T
8. At the beginning of the OE period inanimate objects could distinguish gender. T
9. The Accusative case could also be called prepositional. F
10. In the majority of nouns the ending of the Nominative case coincided with the ending of the Accusative case. T
11. The type of declension of a noun was determined by the set of case endings. F
12. The stem-building suffix is the same as the word-building suffix. F
13. Stem-building suffixes could comprise both consonants and vowels. T
14. Nouns of weak declension had mostly vocalic stem-building suffixes. F
15. Vowel interchange could act instead of form-building suffixes. T
16. The paradigm of OE personal pronouns was characterised by homonymy. F
17. Homonymy among personal pronouns led to a replacement. T
18. The OE adjective had the fewest number of grammatical categories. F
19. All adjectives in OE were divided into strong and weak according to their declension. T
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20. The function of the category of definiteness/indefiniteness shifted to the article. F
21. The definite article was the first to arise. T
22. Not only suffixes but also prefixes were employed in building the paradigm of OE verbs. T
23. There was no future tense in OE. T
24. The OE verbals had mostly nominal characteristics. T
25. Participle II was passive and expressed past actions. F
26. The most numerous morphological class of verbs in OE was strong verbs. F, weak verbs
27. The most productive morphological type was anomalous verbs. F
28. Strong verbs were divided into classes according to the root vowel interchange. T
29. Preterite-present verbs did not take the infinitive with the meaning of purpose after them. F
30. All verbs that employed suppletion as the form-building means had died out by ME. T
II. Choose the variant that does not fit the heading. Prove your point 1. OE:' 2. Synthetic languages:
a) the noun a) prefixes
b) the adverb b) consonant interchange
c) the preposition c) auxiliaries
d) the article d) suffixes
e) the verb e) suppletion 3. Plurality noun endings: 4. OE noun cases:
a) -es a) Genetive
b) -en b) Nominative
c) -ru c) Accusative
d) -ere d) Instrumental
e) Dative
5. Stem-building suffixes of strong declens»
a) -wa-
b) -i-
c) -jo-d)-n-e) -ru-
6. OE pronouns:
a) personal
b) reflexive
c) indefinite
d) demonstrative
e) interrogative 8. OE verbals:
a) infinitive
b) gerund
c) participle I
d) participle II
III. Fill in the gaps (more than one word is possible
1 OE had a_______ grammatical structure.
2, _______is a way of building a word paradigm
3. Grammatical categories were divided into _
served for_______■
4. The best formal distinction of the noun was wfii
5. Gender was distinguished not------------ km
6. A masculine suffix showing the doer of the
7. The fact that gender was often controversial and was not well expressed formally led to
8. The Genetive case had two meanings: the
idea of
9. The division of nouns into declensions was
10. The paradigm of nouns of the weak dec* the_______ of forms, which led to _-----------.
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11. Case endings were made redundant with Ил with the structure "Subject - Verb - Object".
12. There were three numbers in OE pronouns: 1
13. The only category of the adjective that has
14. The first two categories to go out of use win and
5. Stem-building suffixes of strong declension of nouns:
a) -wa-
b) -i-
c) -jo-d)-n-e) -in-
7. OE adjectival categories:
a) number
b) gender
c) person
d) case
e) degrees of comparison 9. Anomalous verbs:
a) cunnan
b) wesan
c) don
d) зап
e) beon
Fill in the gaps (more than one word is possible)
1. OE had a_______grammatical structure.
2._______is a way of building a word paradigm by changing the whole root.
3. Grammatical categories were divided into_______and________, and
served for_______.
6. OE pronouns:
a) personal
b) reflexive
c) indefinite
d) demonstrative
e) interrogative 8. OE verbals:
a) infinitive
b) gerund
c) participle I
d) participle П
4. The best formal distinction of the noun was with the category of.
5. Gender was distinguished not________but________.
6. A masculine suffix showing the doer of the action was____
7. The fact that gender was often controversial, could contradict real gender and was not well expressed formally led to________.
8. The Genetive case had two meanings: the idea of________and the
idea of_________.
9. The division of nouns into declensions was based on the_______.
10. The paradigm of nouns of the weak declension was characterised by the_______of forms, which led to________.
11. Case endings were made redundant with the establishing of the_______
with the structure "Subject - Verb - Object".
12. There were three numbers in OE pronouns: singular, plural and _______.
13. The only category of the adjective that has survived into modem English
14. The first two categories to go out of use with the adjective were
And
15. The OE noun had
cases than the OE adjective, the difference
being _
16. Degrees of comparison *n OE were built with the help of suffixation, vowel interchange in the root and,__----------•
17. In ME the adjective started Lf° develop the------------way of forming
degrees of comparison.
18. The difference between the noun, system of declensions and the adjectival system of declension was__________.
19. The definite article developed from
., and the indefinite one -
from
and
20. The verb predicate agreed with the subject C^ ^e sentence in
21. The idea of a completed action was shown through —
22. The idea of a future action in OE was expressed by____-
23. Number in verbs was distinguished only in_______, and person - m
or
24. The two forms of the OE infinitive differed in
at
id
25. The preposition "to" before the infinitive became a particle whein —
26. Participle I was active and expressed______while Participle П wals
and expressed_______.
27. Typical features of Participle II were_______and the prefix__
28. OE verbs were divided into morphological classes according to___
29. Strong verbs were further subdivided into seven classes according to _ but this system was broken up in ME due to_________.
30. Weak verbs are considered productive because_____
of strong and preterite-present verbs has________with time.
while the number
TOPIC 7 - HISTORY Ш ACCESYl
РгЫ
1. What does the Engfoar. л
2. What is a consonant! ЪПш
3. How can you characseraa
4. What stress patterns use
5. Can we distinguish Ьеям
6. What classes of сошош
7. What consonants do;m
8. What silent letters de учи
1. Accentuation system л
2. OE system of соохошаш
3. Development of ссюоя
Accentuation system
OE is so far removed in: language, quite difficult, if м Л very important role in it The i with word accentuation, the sya subsequent changes.
The OE sound system «a changed during the OE period. be stressed) and it had musical ally on the root vowel) and *вд fell on the root morpheme or m pounds could have two stiesse Ckajoomatical endings were «ш word it remained on the same s
hlaforde - hlaford;
cyninje - cyninj,
^pelinjja - Kpelinj.
Though grammatical can fixes was different. Verb pre* the stress shifted onto the prefi
a'risan, mis'faran - vcr
